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Re: Programming laptops
<Wannabe-mod-mode> Ok guys this is a thread about programming laptops and making them work, I'm asking nicely that you take the legality debates elsewhere, it's making it really hard to follow the proper side of the thread.</wannabe-mod-mode>

Now then, I can boot off my 2k and XP discs, anything else requires a boot floppy. And for the laptop I'm typing this one changing the BIOS to cd boot didn't quite work, at least not with windows CDs. It worked with my knoppix livecd so I install grub to the hard drive, booted that, and then used that to boot the Windows disc. Don't ask me why Windows didn't work, they work on all my other computers and they're not copies.

Moral is, if it won't boot the windows CDs, try a livecd like knoppix, if those work I can offer assistance in using a 3rd-party booter like grub to boot the Windows CD.
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